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Genetic Engineering to Clash With Evolution
Quanta 8, 2016 Genetic Engineering to Clash with EvolutionGene drives promise to spread a trait across an entire population potentially even eradicating anentire species. But evolutionary forces are going to alter even the best-engineered Brooke BorelRicardo Bessa for Quanta MagazineIn a crowded auditorium at New York s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in August, Philipp Messer, apopulation geneticist at Cornell University, took the stage to discuss a powerful and controversialnew application for Genetic Engineering : gene drives can force a trait through a population, defying the usual rules of inheritance. A specifictrait ordinarily has a 50-50 chance of being passed along to the next generation. A gene drive couldpush that rate to nearly 100 percent. The Genetic dominance would then continue in all futuregenerations. You want all the fruit flies in your lab to have light eyes? Engineer a drive for eye color,and soon enough, the fruit flies offspring will have light eyes, as will their offspring, and so on for allQuanta 8, 2016future generations.
new application for genetic engineering: gene drives. Gene drives can force a trait through a population, defying the usual rules of inheritance. A specific trait ordinarily has a 50-50 chance of being passed along to the next generation. A gene drive could push that rate to nearly 100 percent. The genetic dominance would then continue in all ...
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